Judge Blocks Ohio ID Rule for Absentees

[deminks]

http://www.examiner.com/a-364760~Judge_Blocks_Ohio_ID_Rule_for_Absentees.html

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal judge suspended Ohio's new voter identification law Thursday as it applies to absentee voting, saying the state's 88 counties are inconsistently applying the rule in the voting, which is already under way.

U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley granted the temporary restraining order on behalf of labor and poverty groups who sued Tuesday.

The ruling is in effect until Wednesday, when the judge will consider arguments from the same groups seeking to block application of the identification law for voters who go to the polls Nov. 7.

It's unclear how many absentee ballots have been cast since early voting began Oct. 3, said James Lee, spokesman for Secretary of State Ken Blackwell. None were scheduled to be counted before Election Day, and none will be disqualified, he said.

[Botany]

1. Hell Yes!

great news


10% of all the absentee ballots were being pitched.


< But Democratic sources in the Ohio Board of Elections have confirmed to the Free Press that about 10% of the
absentee ballots cast so far are being rejected because of a technicality involving obscure driver's license numbers
demanded on the ballot. Ohio driver's licenses contain two separate numbers: an eleven-digit number above the
photo, and a much smaller eight character license number that begins with two alpha-numeric characters, followed
by six numbers. It is the eight-character license number the BOEs demand on the absentee ballot. But many Ohio
voters don't know that, and are using the wrong number---and thus having their ballot invalidated. Absentee ballots
cast in Ohio tend to be overwhelmingly Democratic. >

[robinlynne]

2. Why is Blackwell still out of jail?

[Greylyn58]

3. This is wonderful news

but I have to ask, Why isn't Blackwell in jail...or better yet, under it!

Jerk!!!!